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How do we react to social media posts about climate change? This was the starting point of an international study featuring INESC TEC collaboration, analysing nearly two million posts on the social network X (formerly Twitter) published over 12 years in the Iberian Peninsula.
28th July 2025
A team of researchers from INESC TEC, the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, and the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre analysed 46 types of tissues from over 700 individuals. The team concluded that smoking impacts tissue architecture and can cause molecular changes not only in organs directly associated with smoke inhalation, e.g., lungs, but also in tissues from other organs, including the pancreas, thyroid, oesophagus, and specific regions of the brain. In many cases, the effects of smoking significantly overlap with those of ageing.
24th July 2025
Imagine being able to access Portuguese local election data in a structured and intuitive way, from 1976 to the present. This was the idea behind the platform A Minha Região - O teu portal autárquico, developed by INESC TEC researchers Rúben Almeida, Sérgio Nunes and Ricardo Campos, which won first place in the 2025 Arquivo.pt awards.
14th July 2025
The EnSafe project (Enhancing Environmental Protection: Anomaly Detection in Waste Transportation using Network Science) is developing AI-based solutions to tackle environmental crimes, focusing on waste transportation chains. EnSafe benefits from the active involvement of INESC TEC, which is developing technologies to detect irregular and suspicious behaviours in a sector that is vulnerable to fraud and environmental corruption.
26th May 2025
Supporting physicians in making complex and rare clinical decisions is the goal of MedLink, a tool developed by researchers at INESC TEC, which won the Best Demo Paper award at the European Conference on Information Retrieval—one of the most prestigious conferences in Europe in the field of information retrieval.
08th May 2025
It's hard to think of current technologies or innovations that do not resort to Language Models (LM) or Natural Language Processing (NLP). Their presence in various society domains - some with significant relevance, like the legal or healthcare sectors - raise issues (and concerns) that often end up focusing on the same question: are LM-based technologies reaching all communities? Recently, two scientific papers featuring INESC TEC - both accepted at AAAI, an A* conference - sought to address some of the challenges in this new era, which directly influence the Portuguese language.
28th February 2025
The seasonality of search queries in search engines could be a factor for online businesses to consider if they seek to improve the ranking of their results. A new demo-paper featuring INESC TEC explored the creation of a database to present the Occasion-aware Recommender solution.
26th February 2025
The main goal of the PTicola project was to expand and build new Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities for the Portuguese language. The results of this project - which include, for example, an English/European Portuguese translator and a PT-BR/PT-PT language variety identifier - address the gap in NLP resources available for PT-PT compared to PT-BR.
14th February 2025
It is called ECML PKDD - European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases -, and it is the largest European conference in machine learning. The event, promoted by INESC TEC, will take place between September 15 and 19, 2025, in Porto; the submission of papers is open until March.
09th January 2025
35 years separate the beginning and the end of the teaching career of João Gama, one of the most-cited scientists in the world. The INESC TEC researcher, who presented his Last Lecture on November 25, said “goodbye” to the classrooms of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto (FEP). The motto? "Where do We Come From? Where are we going?” – the culmination of a recognised academic career, particularly in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning.
28th November 2024
Matías Molina, INESC TEC researcher in Artificial Intelligence, received the PAIS Outstanding Paper Award at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, one of the most relevant AI events in Europe and the world. The EMERITUS project was the basis for this work: INESC TEC is using AI to improve the investigation of environmental crimes.
14th November 2024
For the next four years, INESC TEC will lead an international consortium with a budget of €2.6M, aimed at using advanced techniques to measure environmental radioactivity. According to estimates, by 2028, new technological solutions will be available that can improve both climate research - particularly in estimating greenhouse gas emissions - and radiological protection for the population and the environment.
02nd October 2024